Dec
09
Sometimes when participating in the launch of a brand new initiative, a disruptive one, you may feel a bit like the sorcerer’s apprentice and not too sure how to make things happen. Donning your wizards robe and hat, you go ahead with what seems to be the right things to do, while eager to see how others are doing, and learning from the early experiments. In the past week’s meetings I had with several companies moving into Enterprise 2.0, lessons learned were at the centre of the discussion: what, in the transformation effort, is different from originally expected? Here are 5 misconceptions that came up in the discussions, all valid considerations.
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Written by Cécile Demailly
Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0, Management
Nov
25
An old habit I kept from my Boston years is to listen to OnPoint Radio, which I enjoy very much. There is nothing comparable in France with such high level debates on the key topics of the moment.
The broadcast of November 19. , “Google vs. Murdoch”, is a great moment and definitely worth listening. Guests were: Read more »
Written by Martin R. Dugage
Management
Nov
22
How many times did you feel frustrated with a simple text message when you wished you had had lengthy news? The times of the long letter, handwritten with care, sent with that special feeling (pleasure or chore, as the case may be) are long gone. Now, we get this sense of accomplishment when we have sent that simple “Happy New Year” to our whole contact list on our cell phone! Have you thought about the recipient? Not even, I guess, because, if he or she is part of a huge group, they are no “one in particular”… But, are these short and impromptu messages so bad in the end?
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Written by Martin de Waziers
Uncategorized
Nov
06
Another buzz word enters the arena. Two letters: AR, short for Augmented Reality (wikipedia definition). This concept has long been prophesied by the writers of the cyberpunk genre. However, with the advent of the always-on smart-phones outfitted with a GPS sensor, a magnetometer (a.k.a. digital compass) and live camera view finder, augmented reality is entering our reality real fast…
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Written by Yann Lechelle
iphone, Mobility Enterprise 2.0, Mobility
Oct
27
There are several paradoxes in the current overload of information showering on us everyday, from twitter to RSS to mail to alerts on discussions we are part of, to news, etc.
- The first paradox is that we feel overwhelmed while for most of it, this information overload’s main culprit is us because we are at the origin of the subscriptions.
- The second is that in a world of information most “senders” have not yet understood the minimum etiquette that consists in not communicating if one has nothing to communicate (my grand mother told me to turn my tongue seven times in my mouth before speaking, the habit is lost even by quite prominent personalities, Twitter just makes them look often ridiculous). This happens with Tweets, with mail, with Blogs (why do so many bloggers feel obliged to write every day or more! Do they really think they have something interesting to share every day? Or do they really mess up quantity with quality?), and with most forums. The mail, after about 20 years of diffusion, is not yet well understood by most users and we all tend to use the CC too extensively. The other social media are more richer than mail and are therefore more potentially intrusive. The future of information overload looks bright.
- The third is more subtle but more profound. Most of the progress in understanding any situation is made via listening, thinking, synthesizing, contributing or acting on the situation. When we suffer from this overload, we may listen well (although it is highly debatable) but can we think? Can we make any sense of these flows? Can we really contribute? Can we act? If not, we all waste our time and we help others lose their time too.
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Written by Dominique Turcq
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